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Phasings replacement, flicker, was also used in this role on cards like Momentary Blink but due to the increasing prominence of enters- and leaves-the-battlefield triggers, those cards often turned into over-balanced value engines or combo enablers

While blue might lack big cheap men this is not so much the case when using heavy artifacts and so this guy doesn't even plug a hole in blues repertoire

Another reason that makes understanding this card more complicated is that the floor on it is very low - your opponent can anticipate it and kill your only creature or your strongest creature in response

Speaking of triggering our commander, we have a few cards to do this efficiently: Pestilence, Pyrohemia, Grapeshot

The only mana rock I included was Sol Ring, and you have Neheb, the Eternal as a creature mana-producer